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Because there were no public opinion polls in 1865, it's difficult to calculate the reaction of the defeated South to the news of the assassination of US President Abraham Lincoln. Based on Southern newspapers, the best answer to that news was mixed. Many hateful people were delighted with the news. That to one extent could have been expected. Some Southern people feared a retaliation from US troops stationed in the South. A minority, having read or known about Lincoln's mild 1864 Inaugural Address, and the hint of a mild reconstruction policy were saddened by his death. Former Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston declared the assassination a great calamity for the South.

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